Women never work past 5pm in Norway...And yet they make up 40 per cent of corporate boardrooms.

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The man who enshrined that figure in law, and the woman who is one of the
world’s richest CEOs, tell Stefanie Marsh why Britain will be one of the
last European countries to copy the Scandinavian nation’s revolutionary
approach

The story of potentially the most radical shake-up of corporate boardrooms
this century begins in Oslo: at 6.15am on Friday February 22, 2002, Ansgar
Gabrielsen, the Norwegian minister of trade and industry, was woken by the
insistent trill of his mobile phone.

An anxious voice greeted him. “Have you read the papers?” Gabrielsen
recognised the voice of Kara Huoi, the government’s